Join us on Tuesday, November 10th 2020, 6.30 - 8pm ET for a post-election virtual panel discussion, addressing the future of cultural production in a time of political upheaval and global health crisis. The discussion will feature guests Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, and Eva Mayhabal Davis, Curator, Arts Advocate, and Co-director of Transmitter. Hermo and Mayhabal will be joined by the TIAB curators and team including curatorial advisers and co-curators of Mother Tongue Exhibition and performances, Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand and exhibition manager Katherine Adams. Moderated by Katya Grokhovsky, Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
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Carmen Hermo is the Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She curated "Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making," formed part of the "Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall" curatorial collective, and co-organized "Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection," among other exhibitions. Previously, Carmen was Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. Carmen received her B.A. in Art History and English from the University of Richmond and her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College. She lives in Jersey City.
Eva Mayhabal Davis (b. Toluca, Mexico) is an arts advocate and curator. She has collaborated on exhibitions at BronxArtSpace, En Foco, Expressiones Cultural Center, MECA International Art Fair, Photoville NYC, Queens Museum, Ray Gallery, and Smack Mellon. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she is a Co-Director at Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial initiative. Davis was born in Mexico, raised in the United States, and studied art history at the University of Washington. She is a founding member of El Salón, a meetup for cultural producers.
Mary Annunziata is a Brooklyn-based independent writer and curator whose research focuses on conceptual representations of conflict, surveillance, forced migration, and diasporic identity. She holds an MA in Critical & Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and has worked for institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Artist Protection Fund, a grantmaking initiative that provides fellowships for displaced and threatened artists from emergency zones worldwide. Mary currently serves as a Grant Writer for Access Now, an global non-profit that fights for human rights in the digital age, and as a Curatorial Advisor for The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
Allison Cannella was born in the South, raised in the Midwest, rooted in the Southwest, and educated on the East Coast. She now calls New York her home. Allison completed the Masters in Modern & Contemporary Art History: Critical and Curatorial Studies program at Columbia University in 2018 with a thesis on conceptual art, perception, and the emerging field of neuroesthetics. She got her start in the gallery world three years ago at David Zwirner. Allison is proud to be part of the TIAB team as a curatorial advisor, supporting talented artists from around the world and creating exhibition opportunities during these turbulent times.
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a Swedish/Guyanese independent curator based in New York City. She has held curatorial positions at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Bard Graduate Center, Museum of Arts and Design, and is the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes. She has co-/curated several exhibitions in New York and Europe, she served as a juror on Friends of the Artist Vol. 11, she contributed with an essay on performance art(ists) forthcoming in "Institution is Verb: PPL Lab Site 2012-2018," and was a curatorial resident at Curator’s Agenda: Vienna 2019. Anna Mikaela serves as an advising curator for TIAB. Anna Mikaela holds dual MA degrees, in Design History, Material Culture, and Decorative Arts from Bard Graduate Center and in Art History from Stockholm University
Katherine Adams is an arts professional and emerging curator based in New York City. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Yale University, where she also undertook research in critical theory. She worked previously as a Curatorial Associate for the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and prior to that interned with galleries David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth. Outside of these settings, she also works directly with artists to develop editorial and curatorial projects. Her research and curatorial interests center on performance, notions of artistic research, and time-based media work.
Katya Grokhovsky was born in Ukraine and is based in NYC. She is an artist, independent curator, educator, Chief Curator and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts and a BA (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous awards, residencies and fellowships including EFA Studio Subsidy Program, SVA MFA Art Practice Artist in Residence, Kickstarter Creator in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Department Artist in Residence, MAD Museum Studios Program, Brooklyn Art Council Grant, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant Prize and many more. She has curated over 25 exhibitions and events. Her work has been exhibited extensively.